ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,111, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle load adaptive regenerative braking" was invented by Matthew Allen Robere (Novi, Mich.), Eric E Krueger (Chelsea, Mich.), Arthur D Drennen (Commerce Township, Mich.) and Michael F O'Leary (Howell, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with exemplary embodiments, methods and systems are provided for controlling regenerative braking of a vehicle is provided that include: obtaining, via one or more sensors of the vehicle, sensor data pertaining to a load on the vehicle during a particular vehicle drive; determining, via a processo...